Stowe notes, letters and verses . f bumble and honey bees, and the littlepipe of the many tiny winged things. The serpents: What note is that? Of the old half- * The air blew from trees at vast distance, even from northern Vermont per-chance: for there the basswood or linden flowers in July, though in most tem-perate countries a month earlier. [Authors note.] 2IO STOWENOTES beast piper? Truly, we thought of all this faded com-pany his pipes would be the last to sound. The pipes: Once the half-god spoke for more thanhalf the world, and blithely. Is he dumb, yet not dead ?He lives still in secre
Stowe notes, letters and verses . f bumble and honey bees, and the littlepipe of the many tiny winged things. The serpents: What note is that? Of the old half- * The air blew from trees at vast distance, even from northern Vermont per-chance: for there the basswood or linden flowers in July, though in most tem-perate countries a month earlier. [Authors note.] 2IO STOWENOTES beast piper? Truly, we thought of all this faded com-pany his pipes would be the last to sound. The pipes: Once the half-god spoke for more thanhalf the world, and blithely. Is he dumb, yet not dead ?He lives still in secrecy and suffering; he dwells insilence terribly imposed. Tis better so; for if it werebroken, a cry of agony would rise, so bitter, so piercing,that neither gods nor men might endure to hear it. The serpents: So is it ever with the simple nature,while it fares well with the wise or the cunning. Mer-cury carries all; Mars is his slave; Minerva and Apollostoop to him; he is the Jove of the new Olympus. PENCIL AND PEN-AND-INKDRAWINGS.
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